Meet Mirtha Legrand. She does a talk show in Argentina every Saturday and Sunday. I’m telling taxi drivers that every time I come here, I’m two years older, and Mirtha is five years younger. She celebrated her ninetieth birthday on 23 February 2017.
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Nov
I am loving Buenos Aires since I arrived yesterday, which is fortunate, as I’ve spent almost all of it awake! My friend Gary told me that the Dreamliner helps prevent jet-lag. I’m not so sure… If I can’t get back to sleep early in the morning, because of jet-lag, I like to get up and…
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Nov
This monologue inspired me to write a tasteful novel, which in turn inspired me to perform my show HOW TO WRITE A TASTEFUL NOVEL. I wrote it in 2007, when Perth’s mining boom meant it was impossible to get tradesmen (and they were always men) to come around, and same sex marriage was a bit…
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Oct
I stayed here, close to Rennes, with some family friends, during my first trip to Europe. Good writing sometimes involves knowing when not to write, and letting the scenery speak for itself.
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Oct
When I was 24, I flew to Derby, in the north of WA, for a court case, and had enough time to do what visitors there do. The mud flats… … the jetty… … the boab tree… … and the longest cattle trough. I’m wearing a t-shirt that my Argentine friend Paula sent me, almost…
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Oct
Because when I tried, there was so much wind, a gust of sand blew into it! It was much calmer on the treks out of town.
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Oct
Billie Jean King was the tennis player who got married, won six Wimbledon singles titles, started the women’s professional tennis circuit and the Women’s Tennis Association, co-founded Team Tennis, fought for equal prize money, had an abortion, got sued by her lesbian lover (well, one of them), and (in 1973) beat 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in…
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Oct
My first five trips to Argentina were all during, or just after, elections. I photographed the posters above on my first visit, during its 2003 Presidential election. Eva Perón was supposed to be a reason to vote for Carlos Menem, pictured below. Exactly why a woman who’d been dead for 51 years should make people…
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Sep
